Adlan Amagov is a fighter of mixed martial arts. Biography and career of the athlete

Adlan Amagov is a professional Russian soldier of mixed martial arts. He performs in tournaments on combat sambo (champion of Russia), hand-to-hand fighting, classical sambo, universal fight (European champion) and complex single combat. Amagov is a master of sports of the Russian Federation in hand-to-hand combat, sambo and complex single combats. His person is notable for the fact that he became the first Chechen athlete who managed to break into the highest world division of MMA-UFC.

Adlan Amagov: biography of a fighter

The future champion was born on October 20, 1986 in Grozny (Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Russia). In the traditionally Chechen family, the father was a military man, and his mother was a housewife. Adlan has his own elder brother, Musa Amagov, who also practices mixed martial arts at a professional level. He is the champion of Finland (received Finnish citizenship).

Adlan Amagov began to be interested in martial arts from childhood, like all Chechen boys. Together with his brother, he attended a section of combat sambo. Gradually increasing their skills, the guys began to break out into big competitions and show a decent result.

Professional League

The debut fight on a professional level took place on November 23, 2007. Then Adlan Amagov met in a battle with titled and experienced Alexei Oleinik. Unfortunately, Adlan lost his first fight. However, the following battles ended in success for the Chechen. The first promoters of Amagov were ProFC, under the auspices of which he held 6 winning fights. In 2011, Adlan Amagov signs an agreement with Zuffa (the owners of Strikeforce - an American promotional company for mixed martial arts).

Collaboration with Strikeforce

Under the auspices of Strikeforce, the fighter Adlan Amagov began performing on July 22, 2011. The first battle he won by a unanimous decision. The second was against Anthony Smith, who in his account had no defeats. Gathering all will into a fist, Adlan Amagov came to the ring and from the very first seconds of the fight began to conduct a series of successful attacks, which subsequently ended in a knockout in the first round. As a result, the Briton crashed to the platform with a crash.

In January 2012 Adlan met with American fighter Robbie Lawler and for the first time lost in Strikeforce. In the middle of the second round Robbie made a series of qualitative attacks on the body, which allowed a quick knee blow to the head, after which the Chechen athlete fell to the floor. And after Lawler dealt a series of final punches, and the fight ended with a knockout.

Six months later, Amagov again went into the ring and fought with Kit Bury. Apparently, Adlan has accumulated enough aggression from the last battle that he managed to send his opponent into the knockout in the middle of the first round.

Latest events

At the end of 2013, the media reported that Adlan Amagov is completing his career in connection with religious motives. According to the athlete himself, he simply took a temporary break to solve family problems. In 2016, he returns to the MMA and takes part in the League S-70 tournament, held in Sochi. Here, in the first battle, he managed, in a magnificent style, to knock out Brazilian fighter Dirlei Branstrup with an elbow blow to the head.